Although Dan MacDonald, P.L.S., is passionate about a lot of things—his family, the outdoors, surveying, and good food immediately come to mind—he is…
Category: Feature
09.27.2020
Ohio Department of Transportation RTN
From “The heart of it all” in the City of Columbus, the Ohio Department of Transportation has been pumping out a statewide RTN…
09.27.2020
Breaking the Centimeter Barrier
How a Danish firm met sub-centimeter specifications of a major rail project with mobile mapping
The mobile mapping system, here mounted on the front of the rail maintenance lorry for this project, is a combination of dual high…
09.27.2020
Getting Out with Surveying
“When I first started, I didn’t think it was going to last because the first time you go into a prison and the…
09.27.2020
Recovering the Past to Improve the Future
The National Geodetic Survey defines the official geodetic datums for all federal mapping activities in the U.S. and its territories as part of…
09.27.2020
Unsung Hero: The Michigan and Ohio State Line
The State line between Michigan and Ohio was created, on paper, with the signing of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Ordinance stated…
07.21.2020
Surveyors Stay Open for Business During the Coronavirus Pandemic
From coast to coast, surveyors by and large have kept busy and operational while many other sectors of the American economy experienced a…
07.12.2020
In the Heights
Remember the suspense over whether the new World Trade Center was the tallest building in the Americas? At a numerically patriotic 1,776 feet,…
07.12.2020
Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Four surveying and mapping colleagues share their experience working through the outbreak Ed, Board Member and Head of Field Surveys & Mapping Department…
07.12.2020
FEMA NFIP Technical Bulletin 1 (2020)
The Surveyor as Floodplain Consultant
The much-anticipated revision of TB-1 is out. “Requirements for Flood Openings in Foundation Walls and Walls of Enclosures, Technical Bulletin 1” was released…
